Method of designing organizational information processing and operational system based upon information providers and information consumers
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsMariko Shozui, Koshichiro Mitsukuni
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Abstract
The service function and information design process is automated in order to shorten the design process period. The same process is based upon the relationships between activities and the information that the activities provide and consume. The relationships are maintained in a predetermined format and are updated by any changes that are affecting the relationships. In addition, the activities are further defined by detailed activities.
Claims32
A method of designing an information flow process, comprising the steps of:
- determining a predetermined set of activity names in a predetermined sequence, the activity names respectively representing certain service operations;
- displaying the activity names as information provider activity names and information consumer activity names according to the predetermined sequence in a predetermined data flow definition (DFD) matrix format;
- specifying an information name, one of the information provider activity names and a corresponding one of the information consumer activity names, the information name at a position in the predetermined DFD matrix format representing data to be transmitted from the information provider activity name to the information consumer activity name;
- storing the relations among the information provider activity names, the information names and the information consumer activity names in an entity relation (ER) source information file;
- further determining associated detailed activities of a selected one of the activity names;
- updating the predetermined DFD matrix format based upon the associated detailed activities for displaying the activity names;
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- storing the activity names with the associated detailed activities in the ER source information file.
A medium storing a computer program for designing an information flow process, the computer program performing the tasks of:
- determining a predetermined set of activity names in a predetermined sequence, the activity names respectively representing certain service operations;
- displaying the activity names as information provider activity names and information consumer activity names according to the predetermined sequence in a predetermined data flow definition (DFD) matrix format;
- specifying an information name, one of the information provider activity names and a corresponding one of the information consumer activity names, the information name at a position in the predetermined DFD matrix format representing data to be transmitted from the information provider activity name to the information consumer activity name;
- storing the relations among the information provider activity names, the information names and the information consumer activity names in an entity relation (ER) source information file;
- receiving additional user input data for selecting sequential pairs of the activity names and the information names from the DFD matrix;
- storing the sequential pairs of the activity names and the information names into an event trace table;
- reading one of the activity names from the event trace table;
- displaying the one of the activity names in an event record column in an event trace diagram;
- reading a corresponding one of the information names from the event trace;
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- displaying the corresponding one of the information names in a row that corresponds to the one of the activity names in the event record column.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.